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SEATTLE, Wa. (AP) — At a time of soaring home prices, rising homelessness and a housing crisis in Washington that will require 1 million homes over the next two-plus decades to keep up with population growth, Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed a law legalizing duplexes and fourplexes in most neighborhoods in nearly every city to increase the state’s housing supply.Article content
House Bill 1110 overrides local zoning rules that have long kept large areas in cities for only single-family homes. The new law will not ban the construction of single-family homes, but it will stop cities…
Germany takes a long-expected step to drive forward the adult-use cannabis market in Europe, the global export market adjusts to develop domestic agendas, and the UK has a choice to make.Last week (12 April 2023) saw the German government put forward its formal proposals to legalize the cultivation, possession, and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes (otherwise known as the “adult-use market” as opposed to the “medicinal market”) . While the proposals have been long expected, they did not extend as far as some may have wished but do still, if implemented as planned, represent the most significant development…
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed an amendment to a law granting the city’s leader the power to bar overseas lawyers from handling national security cases, following a high-profile row sparked by a pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher’s hiring of a British lawyer.
The changes will require overseas lawyers who do not generally practice in Hong Kong to obtain permission from the chief…
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office escalated 34 charges against Donald Trump to felony by arguing the former president concocted a scheme to conceal election law violations and deceive tax authorities, the unsealed indictment showed on Tuesday.The grand jury charged the former president with falsifying business records after Trump’s reimbursement to his then fixer Michael Cohen for $130,000 in hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 were falsely recorded as legal expenses.
But falsifying business records is normally a misdemeanor offense, unless prosecutors can show that a defendant intends to commit, aid or conceal…
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British Columbia will become the first province in Canada to systematically amend provincial laws to remove outdated gendered and binary language, better reflecting the diversity of the province and ensuring everyone can access provincial programs and services.
Brenda Bailey, Minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation, has introduced new modernizing legislation to correct outdated language by amending more than 2,300 instances of outdated gendered and binary terms from 21 ministries across 210 provincial statutes.
“Words have a powerful effect, whether written or spoken, and all British Columbians deserve to see themselves reflected in BC’s programs and services,” said Bailey. “We…